[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: working to put mplayer in Debian

[Dariusz Pietrzak]

>> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:
>> >> where???????????
>> >> what is not gpl?
>> >
>> > As I've pointed out several times, divx4_vbr.c is derived from
>> > OpenDivX...
>>
>> OpenDivX has what license?
>
>The OpenDivX license, which is a pseudo-free license with lots of lame
>non-free clauses. However, whether divx4_vbr.c is really "derived
>from", or rather just "inspired by" the OpenDivX code remains open to
>debate. I haven't actually compared the code myself, but supposedly
It is C++ translated into C.
I contacted all(most) of the authors ( khuh, some are probably reading
this list ), and the state of affairs is like this
 - there is GPL re-implenentation of the code coming for transcode
 ( we use exactly the same file as theirs divx4_vbr and xvid_vbr )
 - OpenDivx switched licence to GPL lately... problem is that only decoder
is GPLd, and the code comes from encoder, which is still closed.
 - offending code in question is quite simple, it should be fairly easy to
 rewrite, if noone does it, I will, I am only affraid, especially after my
 latest vf_mirror implementation which when I finally noticed is buggy and
 corrected it, was already corrected.

So in the meantime I'm packaging only mplayer and divx4_vbr get disabled
until transcode gets new code.